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Enter Julia Roberts, bearing an Oscar. In this free-market free-for-all, she epitomizes the paradox of being the best. Is Roberts the best American actress? That little statue is a sign that she can sometimes be a screen presence to reckon with, but in any ballot of the most accomplished performers, she would meet heavy competition from Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Julianne Moore and Kathy Bates, to name a few. But Best Movie Star? No contest. And that's because she is the biggest female box-office draw, even in films that are often of so-so quality...
...Paradox has long been a part of life here, says Georgianne Christian Allen, who is writing a history of Shermantown, an African-American neighborhood in Stone Mountain. According to oral tradition, the neighborhood was created after Union General William Tecumseh Sherman made his fiery path through Georgia and freed slaves, some of whom congregated in the small area between Main Street and the mountain. Elderly blacks remember the injustice of separatism and Shermantown as one of the last areas in DeKalb County to get sewers and paved roads. But even when separatism was perpetuated by law, "Stone Mountain blacks...
...Hearing Raph Nader?s name used to drive corporate lobbyists crazy. Now it is the consumer advocate?s old friends who howl at its mention. Their rage is fired by a paradox: the champion of reform arguably gave birth to Dubya?s age of conservative reaction. That makes Nader a politician with a national following but few allies. He continues to draw sizeable crowds at colleges and conferences across the nation, delivering the populist spiel he ran on as the Green Party candidate. But Democratic Congressmen who worked with him to craft a generation of consumer and environmental...
...back to the basic paradox of the war on drugs: The more government agencies succeed in choking the supply, the higher the price it fetches and the greater the incentive for producers, traffickers and dealers to take the risk of bringing it to market. Even once the cause of the Peru missionary tragedy is established and steps are taken to prevent a recurrence, the drug war will remain unwinnable until the U.S. appetite for narcotics is suppressed. And that's something no amount of AWACS patrols or special forces training or mandatory minimum prison sentences can achieve...
...provide colorful backdrops and move the action swiftly along. Kent's one clever touch is the lurking presence of Jack the Ripper, for whom Lulu constantly waits. When they finally meet, she is charmed. He is her dream date, as well as her nightmare. It is the final paradox of a play in which Wedekind poses tantalising questions: Is Lulu a monster, and who uses whom? Unfortunately, Kent and Friel don't have the answers...